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United States Patent | 6,196,613 |
Arai | March 6, 2001 |
A flattable seat structure of an automobile includes: a slide rail fixed to a floor of the automobile; a seat cushion having a front roller which is engaged with the slide rail in a front-and-rear direction slidably; a first lock mechanism for maintaining the seat cushion in a seated state; a seat back having a lower-end roller which is engaged with the slide rail in the front-and-rear direction slidably; a second lock mechanism for maintaining the seat back in a seated state; a cushion link connected with a middle fulcrum of the seat cushion and connected with a middle portion of the slide rail; and a back link whose one end is connected with a middle fulcrum of the seat back positioned in an upper side further than the lower-end roller, the other end of the back link being connected with the middle portion of the slide rail. In the construction, after the first and second lock mechanism are released, a back surface of the seat cushion and a rear surface of the seat back are facing and in a same horizontal level.
Inventors: | Arai; Tomiji (Kanagawa-ken, JP) |
Assignee: | Ikeda Bussan Co., Ltd (Kanagawa-ken, JP) |
Appl. No.: | 353784 |
Filed: | July 15, 1999 |
Jul 27, 1998[JP] | 10-211461 |
Current U.S. Class: | 296/65.13; 296/65.09; 296/69; 297/334; 297/335; 297/378.12 |
Intern'l Class: | B60N 002/02 |
Field of Search: | 296/65.01,65.09,65.13,65.14,69,66,65.05 297/344.1,313,331,334,335,336,378.1,378.12,378.13,354.13,366,367 |
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